Holdkey
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
Comments and Reviews
Said about Holdkey as an alternative
AntumDeluge Both are used for quick input of special characters.
AllChars Tags
- alt-codes
- accented-characters
Recent user activities on Holdkey
- greyman000 added Holdkey as alternative(s) to FontMap
- POX added Holdkey as alternative(s) to Glyphfinder
- tijmen added Holdkey as alternative(s) to Unicode Map
The free version is good enough but Pro version is even more amazing!
Just discovered this after upgrading to a new laptop that lacks the accent keys. Trying to constantly use character map was cumbersome, and Alt Gr doesn't give enough control over which accents to use.
Had hoped, now that Microsoft owns Swiftkey, that such functionality would be built into windows, but alas Holdkeys is the only solution I can find that allows you to use your keyboard as normal, but hold a key to display accented versions of the letter (as per modern software keyboards, such as Google Keyboard, swiftkey etc).
The fact as you can use it for free is incredible.
[Edited by nascentt, December 29]
Downgrading rating as the program is extremely buggy and developer doesn't help. bought pro to try and solve constant program failures, only for them to increase with pro version (program stops working twice every 15 minutes)
can't recommend this anymore with the severe issues is has.